Korean Retrospective: Jeonju
Jeonju’s name roughly translating to “the perfect region”, it is a tourist city that takes pride in the tradition and nature. It is surrounded by beautiful mountains and parks giving it a more rural feel than either Busan or Seoul, and the tourist part was peppered with historical buildings and temples.
Korean Retrospective: Busan
ICCV 2021 seems like a million years ago.
Seeing people with masks in my photos doesn’t seem strange at all, and keeping one’s distance from others doesn’t seem as cold now as it did then. In a way, some aspects of Korean culture (such as food, snacks, and music) seem more natural now when I have plethora of Korean stores and amazing restaurants at my doorstep. Originally, I was intending to post a series of photographs as a journal of sorts, like I did for my “Mexico journals” but I somehow never got around to it. This feels as good of a time as any to continue posting the photographs from that trip, so here we go. First in line: Busan.
Mexico journal: unpublished work
Throughout my journey I’ve seen and done many things - this lead to a bunch of images. A lot of these images don’t really fall into any particular category, so here is a dump, nicely captioned as there is no real cohesive story tying them together. Images are grouped in “galleries”, loosely related by themes.
Mexico journal: coconuts
When I was set on a path to Mexico, I expected many many things.
What I haven’t expected is that I’d fall in love and miss coconuts so much.
Mexico journal: Tulum
There are a few places in 2020 that do not give a fuck about a certain pandemic and Tulum is definitely one of them. Here is a brief journal from my day spent there with Tamy, Ana, and Hugo.
What is it like to own a classic Hasselblad
Almost exactly 6 months ago, I bought myself a gift for my 25th birthday - a classic Hasselblad I named “Haso”. While owning something for the sake of owning it seems (and is) materialistic, it was one of my dreams for a long long time that I was finally able to make come true, thanks to Ward and Adrian of the amazing Camera Museum in London. Here are some thoughts, tips and tricks, and finally warnings that nobody told me about before getting into the Hasselblad system.